Sunny Walkers 240219 Picacho and El Aljibe
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 8.58 mi
- Elevation gain
- 2,881 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 2,881 ft
- Max elevation
- 3,574 ft
- TrailRank
- 36
- Min elevation
- 1,254 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 4 hours 4 minutes
- Time
- 5 hours 39 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2483
- Uploaded
- February 24, 2019
- Recorded
- February 2019
near Alcalá de los Gazules, Andalucía (España)
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Itinerary description
To do this hike you need a special permit that you can process at the Office of Natural park Los Alcornocales, in Alcalá de los Gazules.
The starting point is Picacho’s recreational area, so you have to be careful not to get confused with other routes that start at the same place. So the trail first runs as Subida al Picacho, in the first section it fully coincides with this route, but on reaching Puerto de las Calabazas we need to turn to the right, looking for the perimeter firewall or stone wall of the edge of the mount.
You can enjoy the vegetation full of hollies and oaks from other parts of the world. Following the path we come out on the forest track that leads directly to Pico del Aljibe, 1100 meters high.
At this point we are on the border between the provinces of Malaga and Cadiz.
From here we head towards Picacho where
at the top we can admire other towns like Barbate, Vejer de la Frontera and Benalup. We will also observe Sierra de Grazalema at the distance. A rewarding moment that you can keep forever taking beautiful pictures with your camera. We then head back down to our starting point through the pine and cork oak forest.
A great hike with a lot of climbing which you need to be prepared for although the strong winds we encountered didn’t make it any easier but on the plus side it was a beautiful days hike although a little tough.
The starting point is Picacho’s recreational area, so you have to be careful not to get confused with other routes that start at the same place. So the trail first runs as Subida al Picacho, in the first section it fully coincides with this route, but on reaching Puerto de las Calabazas we need to turn to the right, looking for the perimeter firewall or stone wall of the edge of the mount.
You can enjoy the vegetation full of hollies and oaks from other parts of the world. Following the path we come out on the forest track that leads directly to Pico del Aljibe, 1100 meters high.
At this point we are on the border between the provinces of Malaga and Cadiz.
From here we head towards Picacho where
at the top we can admire other towns like Barbate, Vejer de la Frontera and Benalup. We will also observe Sierra de Grazalema at the distance. A rewarding moment that you can keep forever taking beautiful pictures with your camera. We then head back down to our starting point through the pine and cork oak forest.
A great hike with a lot of climbing which you need to be prepared for although the strong winds we encountered didn’t make it any easier but on the plus side it was a beautiful days hike although a little tough.
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